I am using an NGINX container which is based on Debian 11 — following the vouch-proxy build instructions failed spectacularly on the first step, reporting that “package embed is not in GOROOT”. It appears that Debian package installation gets you go 1.15 — and ’embed’ wasn’t added until 1.16. So … that’s not great.

As a note to myself — here are the additional packages I install to the base container:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install vim wget net-tools procps git make gcc g++

To manually install golang on Debian:

• Find the version you want to run on https://golang.org/dl/ and wget that tar.gz file
  • wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.19.linux-amd64.tar.gz
• tar -vxf go1.19.linux-amd64.tar.gz
• mv go /usr/local/
• vi /etc/bash.bashrc and append the following lines:
  export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
  export PATH=$GOROOT/bin:$PATH
• Log out and log back in. Test the go installation by running:
  • go version

Now I am able to run their shell script to build the vouch-proxy binary:

• cd /opt
• git clone https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy.git
• cd vouch-proxy
• ./do.sh goget
• ./do.sh build
• cd configure
• cp config.yml_example_oidc config.yml
• ./vouch-proxy